Haunting

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Haunt \Haunt\ (h[aum]nt; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Haunted}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Haunting}.] [F. hanter; of uncertain origin,
     perh. from an assumed LL. ambitare to go about, fr. L. ambire
     (see {Ambition}); or cf. Icel. heimta to demand, regain, akin
     to heim home (see {Home}). [root]36.]
     1. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit


        pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.
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              You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house.
                                                    --Shak.
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              Those cares that haunt the court and town. --Swift.
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     2. To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost
        or apparition; -- said of spirits or ghosts, especially of
        dead people; as, the murdered man haunts the house where
        he died.
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              Foul spirits haunt my resting place.  --Fairfax.
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     3. To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obs.]
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              That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . .
              . is cursed.                          --Chaucer.
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              Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.
                                                    --Ascham.
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     4. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.]
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              Haunt thyself to pity.                --Wyclif.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  haunting
       adj 1: continually recurring to the mind; "haunting memories"; "the
              cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting
              beauty"- Claudia Cassidy [syn: {persistent}]
       2: having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect; "from two
          handsome and talented young men to two haunting horrors of
          disintegration"-Charles Lee

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "haunting":
     continuous, cyclical, ever-recurring, frequent, incessant,
     indelible, nagging, obsessive, periodic, persistent, reappearing,
     recurrent, recurring, returning, revenant, thematic, thick-coming,
     ubiquitous, unforgettable